Comments Thread For: Juan Diaz: One More Fight, and Then the Big Boys at 135

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He was 16 years old when he turned pro, 20 years old when he won his first world title, 24 years old when he unified three belts in the lightweight division, and 27 when he retired.

Now Juan Diaz is three fights into his comeback, a 30-year-old rejuvenated by two and a half years away from a sport in which he’s competed for most of his life.

Diaz returned this past April with a stoppage of Pipino Cuevas Jr., scored a technical knockout of Adailton De Jesus in August, and outpointed Juan Santiago in October on the undercard to Mike Alvarado vs. Ruslan Provodnikov.

That brought his record to 38-4 with 19 knockouts, with those defeats coming against Juan Manuel Marquez (twice), Paulie Malignaggi and Nate Campbell. [Click Here To Read More]

[Tobi.G]

Baby Bull!!!

[TOBYLEE1]

Diaz is always in entertaining fights. But he has to understand that at times in trying to be fan friendly he might not be able to win a fight and would have to box.

He has always been good for the sport

[UTEP]

Can't wait till he gets another title shot.


WAR BABY BULL!!!

[Hougigo]

Who can he fight for a title at 135 though?
Shaki gonna fight Vasquez
Crawford in line for the WBO
Abril maybe.... that's it though

[paulf]

I mean, I was against his comeback (he shoulda gone on with his plan to go to Dartmouth), but he's looked pretty good in his comeback fights. There's room for him at 135.

[BoxngLove]

he's talking about being comfortable and carry baby fat? I do not think that he is going to do well trying to squeeze into 135 if he wants to sport the fleshy look. He complained 135 was too small before, then he was a man without a weight division. GL to him, but he needs to work on his timing, bc he gets tagged all night by slick counterpunchers.

[anonymous2.0]

I still think promoters see him as 'just an opponent'

[Spray_resistant]

He was never really that impressive to me even in his prime and now I don't see him making much noise.

[New England]

omar pantera figueroa.

foty if diaz still has anything left. in his prime diaz would beat the garbage out of figeroa. he'd spin circles around him in close and land combinations. different class of boxer.